Samsung Fold 3 + Flip 3 - Cheaper & Better! By Dave2D

Okay so Samsung just announced a few new devices, including two new foldable, as well as a pair of wireless earbuds, and I was able to spend a little of time with these devices earlier last week and I thought I'd do a kind of first impressions of them. I'm going to start off with the galaxy fold. Three. This is their flagship product, it's their flagship, foldable, it's the flagship device and their whole galaxy lineup, and this thing is nice: it's got an updated look, it's got a more modern vibe to it. It's got cleaner lines. It's a little thinner a little lighter when you pick it up.

The difference in weight is not super noticeable, but the difference in thickness compared to the fold. Two is quite obvious. Now inside we're looking at three relatively big changes this year. The first is the presence of an under display camera. So this is a camera system that can become somewhat invisible.

Secondly, is the presence of s pen support and then lastly, it's now ipx8 water certified, so I'm going to start off with the camera, because that's the coolest thing to me that under display camera is tech that we've seen before this isn't the first phone in the world with it. But this is the first time we've seen it on a galaxy device, and it's also the first time we've seen it done in this type of form. Factor you're, basically hiding the camera so that it's as invisible as possible for any kind of media consumption or any kind of use of that front display now the way they do it. If you're unfamiliar with this tech, is that there's just a bunch of pixels above the camera and above the lens, and they can turn it on and off to hide the camera tech. That's underneath the thing is its imperfect.

Now, last year, when the axon 20 came out, this was the first commercially available phone that had the tech built into it, and you could see if you looked for it, that there was kind of like visual artifacts at the top of the display where that camera was hidden. Now in the fold, three there's still a visual artifact in that area. Right, if you know what you're looking for, and you are looking in, the right spot, you'll see it's fairly obvious, and it's more noticeable in very bright backgrounds. If it's a white background, it's more obvious, it's most obvious! Then, if it's a darker shade or a darker scene, it's tougher to see it, but if you're looking for it, you'll see it now. I was actually a little surprised to see that there wasn't much of an improvement in that implementation compared to this one from the past.

The other thing to keep in mind is that, in order to pull this off in order for Samsung to have an under display camera system, they've had to reduce the camera quality of that front-facing camera. On that screen right, I get it like they're going for a look, but it's just surprising to me that that's what they had to do- and the other thing I was surprised, is the scene like ever since the original galaxy fold launched the scene right down. The middle was something that people were concerned about right. How obvious is it? How annoying is it for the user? It doesn't matter to me personally, like I've, never once thought that the visual experience of a foldable phone was ruined by the presence of the scene. It's obvious it's right in front of your face, but it just exists.

That being said, I'm surprised that on a third generation of foldable tech, it still has such an obvious scene. It seemingly has the same degree of sea mage as the first one, but maybe that's just the tech uh okay in terms of the s pen, so this to me is a really nice addition. You can't use every s pen that Samsung offers they have the s pen pro, which is compatible with this one, but they also have a dedicated or new s, pen built specifically for the full devices. It also has this case that you can get that has a detachable kind of pen, clip holder, which is kind of neat, and it's now water resistant which to me is an incredible feat of technology. If you think about what is happening when you open and close this device like this hinge, has so many moving parts like last year on the full two, they implemented some brushes to improve the dust resistance, but to make it water resistant to any degree, that's crazy to me, and it's cool, because anyone who's ever considered a foldable device and even in the future, if you ever look at this stuff, its durability comes into your mind.

Right like how durable is a hinge like this there's moving parts and just having water resistance is really nice to see. So it also has gorilla glass Vitus. It has a matte finish. It's got a stronger aluminum body like the metal that they've used a little stronger than the previous generation, and the whole device is thinner and lighter, but the camera system remains relatively unchanged, like maybe the software has been tweaked, but in terms of the camera hardware, from what I've seen it's identical to the previous generation. So if camera image quality is hugely important to you, then you're going to be disappointed, but for people that want the bleeding edge and galaxy tech with folding screens and under display cameras.

This is going to fit the ticket quite nicely. Now the pricing is actually a little lower than it was in the past. It's now 17.99 at the base model, which is 200 bucks cheaper than it was last gen. It's still super expensive, like an 1800 phone, is still an 1800 phone, but it's more accessible than it was last year. Okay.

Moving on to the flip three, so this is the device that I think looks a lot cooler than the previous generation, the flip and the flip 5g. There was something about this device like it just felt almost like a toy to me. It's not even about the shape, it's more of the rounded nature and just like the dated kind of front, look to it. This new one looks a lot better to me. Maybe it's the camera array, maybe it's the design lines.

Maybe it's the bigger screen, but whatever it is, is just a lot nicer. Looking than the first generation one now, it's not any lighter than the previous generation, but it is nicer to hold in your hand, I'm not sure if it's from the change in the thickness of it, or it's just the actual design element, but it is a nicer feeling device in your hand. Now the front screen is bigger, and you have access to a few widgets like you can have like Samsung pay in there's obviously messages, but you can do more with that screen than you could with the previous generation, and again it's ipx8 water resistance certified. Just like the fold.3. now inside the screen's been upgraded to 120 hertz display.

So it's a little faster and more fluid of a visual experience on the inside, but you still have a regular camera punch full, not the under display tech that you see on the fold 3. Now the pricing of it is a little better. It's now a thousand dollars of the base model still super expensive, but it's just a more accessible product category than it has been in the past. So like 200 bucks cheaper than the previous generation, it does only have 128 gigs of storage on that base model. I think, last year it was like 256, but it's I don't know 1000 bucks for the people that are trying to get into this foldable tech world.

They want to be kind of relatively early adopters. Still, I think, that's somewhat reasonable, it's definitely better than 1200 or 1400 from a few years ago. All right. The last time I want to talk about are the Galaxy Buds too. These are 150, and I think these are very well priced for what you're getting these have active noise cancellation.

They have a lot of the tech that they've taken from the pro lineup, and they've stuck them in here. I think that these will sell really well. They come in a few colors, and they get five hours of battery life with active noise cancellation on, I think, that's very competitive, and they seem quite lightweight which I personally like when it comes to my wireless earbuds, so I'll be testing those out in the future, but that's the Samsung lineup, the foldable and the wireless earbuds. Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs. If you liked it subs, if you loved it I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Dave2D